Car crashes into building - please post your Local news stories

There was that really odd one about a year ago where a Kia at Robin Hood island in Shirley rode up the back of a roundish car and tipped over at about 5mph. Doubt it would pass an Elk test.

David9694 wrote:

Here's the Google view.

Thats the one. Out of the junction and into the tower block. Here's a clip of them getting it out. At the beginning you can see the tyre tracks and the remains of the fence. I'm nearly sure I've seen and been passed by that same A4 on various occasions. He really pays no attention to speed limits. 
 

https://youtu.be/TI5-25cy-DI

I thought it was a guess but very fast sums it up.

Dangerous driving easily.

Sriracha wrote:

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his vehicle was in a collision with East Linton Bridge

But who was to blame - the vehicle or East Linton Bridge? And where was he whilst his vehicle was involved in these shenanigans?

I think that it must be the vehicle as the owner has been reported for traffic offences. I imagine that it's like failure to keep a dog under control and that the owner was running after the car trying to get it back. Fenton! Fenton! Fenton!

Check for globules. 

Had in mind some of our occasional contributors who feel that their firearms make them safer - I guess I had a vision of that cyclist shouting "he's coming right for me" before shooting at the driver. But yes, we already have too many Judge Dredds about and they're not cycling.

That came to mind, thought that it was a Land /Range Rover though. The other car was the sporty version of the Yaris so one of the smallest cars on the roads. 

Surely just a momentary lapse? At that speed, crashing quite forgivable in the UK courts.

I wonder how many seconds before it was just a good laugh hooning around at 3:30am?

Collisions between fast moving trains and cars tend to be 'short-lived'. It's the grief and misery thereafter that last forever. This bloke has got away about as lightly as he could have (along with 100 potential casualties on the train.) 

I hope he's learned his lesson. (Though the not guilty plea suggests otherwise.)

The centre of gravity is far too high for a lot of these big popular vehicles. And because they roll far too easily and they are so heavy, the roofs and more importantly the pillars have to be bigger, thus giving less overall visibility.

War on motorist innit!

Pretty much, because of the size they are awful for aerodynamics and accelerating that mass requires a lot of fuel.

Far worse outcomes for external vulnerable road users too.

I do understand they are great for assuaging feelings of inadequacy though...

Just to balance (as they seem unable to balance themselves) that it's big vehicles that fall over, here's a Fiat 500 on it's side. Apparently there was a driver, she did a runner though.

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/20681488.overturned-car-left-aban...

Best if he is banned for life until he can prove otherwise.

Driving around in Cornwall must be an absolute nightmare, it wasn't easy for my parents driving us around on our holidays 40 odd years ago, and they never had a big car.

What it must be like now with far more of the things about and most of them being huge...

Full series of cars trapped on beaches, 22 and counting...

https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/fifteen-unbelievable-fai...

hirsute wrote:

https://metro.co.uk/2022/07/27/lorry-driver-destroyed-girlfriends-home-b... "The court heard Wellington caused £475,000 worth of damage after wrecking both Ms Cassidy’s and a neighbour’s homes late on September 6 last year." This is why cyclists need insurance. "Wellington had been an HGV driver ‘for a decade or so’ and the incident might mean he could never return to the profession." He should never be allowed in charge of a child's scooter for the rest of his life.

Bet they won't show or even mention this on the Stobart loving TV program

Jogle wrote:

Car crashes into Clarkston pharmacy as police and fire crews tape off scene

Hopefully it managed to avoid hitting any of them. Convenient that they were already on the scene though.

A relief that it was an erratic motorcyclist that caused his momentary lapse of attention, not a cyclist, he probably could have got away with it otherwise.